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Hillary Learns a Lesson

Taylor Marsh | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

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Taylor Marsh

I still get emails, and a smattering of sore winner comments, that Secretary Clinton will be the undoing of President Obama. Hoping ain't gettin'. Hasn't happened yet.

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James Carville Book Dishes And Disses On Hillary Campaign

The Plum Line | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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In a forthcoming book, top Hillary supporter James Carville reveals that Bill Clinton was privately shocked and infuriated by the Hillary campaign's ...

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What Went Wrong Inside The Clinton Campaign

New York Times | Peter Baker and Jim Rutenberg | Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics

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By the time the campaign tracked down the small-city Indiana mayor, Bill Clinton was in a lather. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had lost the North Ca...

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Hillary Learned Nothing From Iraq

Steve Young | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

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Steve Young

Hillary's campaign was built on the base of predetermined success. Mission Accomplished declared with far more hostilities left to deal with.

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TNR Asks Clinton Supporters: What Went Wrong?

The New Republic | Michelle Cottle | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics

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Endings are rarely as joyous as beginnings--and in the case of a long, wearing, and ultimately disappointing campaign, they can be downright brutal. B...

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Billification and Other Bad Ideas

Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Dylan Loewe

Bill Clinton is to politics what Isiah Thomas is to basketball. He can hit the political jumper, but he cannot call the plays.

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Sam Stein

Bill Clinton Former Adviser: Hillary Should Have Gone Negative Sooner

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Some Democratic officials are cringing over the negative tone that the primary race between Sens. Obama and Clinton has taken, worried about party coh...

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Clinton Camp Marred By Distrust, Lacks Leadership

The New Republic | Michelle Cottle | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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By the time Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle finally packed up her lovely corner office with its fresh blue carpet and mini-fridge...

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Mark Penn's Fall: Clintonistas Dance On Penn's Grave

New York Observer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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On a conference call among high-level Clinton staffers on the morning of April 7, longtime adviser Mark Penn was arguing about a proposed advertisemen...

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Clinton Campaign A Study In Missteps

Politico | JIM VANDEHEI & DAVID PAUL KUHN | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to decide the nomination based on who can coolly and competently run the country. She had better hope they don't s...

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Jason Linkins

Axelrod On Penn: 'You Can Use The Word Hypocrisy'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod called Mark Penn's departure from the Clinton campaign "stunning," and coined the iconic quip for this morning...

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Report: British Prime Minister Seeking Mark Penn As Strategist

Daily Mail | Simon Walters | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

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Gordon Brown is secretly planning to headhunt the world's most expensive polling expert in an attempt to revive his political fortunes. The move to r...

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Mark Penn Apologizes For Colombia Free Trade Work

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist apologized Friday for meeting with Colombian officials pushing a free trade agreement tha...

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Clinton Camp Hires Another Pollster

MSNBC News | Chuck Todd | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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First Read has learned that the Clinton campaign has hired Democratic pollster Geoff Garin to do polling for the campaign. Garin and his firm has plen...

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Obama Camp: Penn Comments "Divorced From Reality"

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor released this statement in response to Clinton strategist Mark Penn's claim that Obama could not win a general electio...

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Mark Penn: "Obama Really Can't Win The General Election"

USA Today | Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Though the campaign later argued that he hadn't said it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief campaign strategist told reporters this morning that Sen....

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Jason Linkins

Mark Penn Is Apparently Not To Blame For All Of Clinton's Missteps

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As the Clinton campaign worked to reverse the trend of negative media coverage that they felt had been running against them, there was a certain brill...

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Penn Credits "3 AM" Ad With Momentum

Washington Post's The Trail | Chris Cillizza | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (N.Y.) presidential campaign, asserted today that an ad that raised the specter of a...

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Internal Clinton Campaign Feuding Spills Into Public Again

LA Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As they mapped out a campaign schedule for Bill Clinton, top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton kept his time short in South Carolina. They were probably...

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Thomas B. Edsall

Mark Penn Ties Drag Clinton Down

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As the Clinton campaign struggles to pull out of a potentially terminal nosedive just four days before the decisive Ohio and Texas primaries, much of ...

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Clinton Adviser Harold Ickes: Blame Penn

New York Observer | Jason Horowitz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Harold Ickes definitely doesn't buy the argument that Mark Penn isn't responsible for everything that has happened to the Hillary Clinton campaign. "...

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Harold Ickes Takes Shot At Mark Penn

The Swamp | Glenn Thrush | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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It's no secret that Hillary Clinton's tactical commando Harold Ickes isn't crazy about the campaign's top strategist Mark Penn, and a little of that c...

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Clinton Camp Spends $33 Million On Consultants

Politico | Kenneth Vogel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Rodham Clinton started the year flush with cash, but by the beginning of this month, she'd blazed through most of it -- spending $11 million ...

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Clinton Camp: Winning Primaries Is Not "A Sign Of Who Can Win" General

Politico | David Kuhn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign has begun an eleventh hour effort to implore Democrats to support her by framing her as the strongest general election...

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Mark Penn: Obama Independent Support Would "Evaporate" In General Election

Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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On a conference call with reporters just now, Hillary pollster Mark Penn sought to make the case for her electability by dredging up bad memories of t...

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